import from i-tunes??

[Carl Amoscato]

If nobody comes up with a better answer, you could just burn it to a CD (as a CD audio file) and import it from that.

good luck,
Carl

[Dom Silverio]

Convert them in iTunes to AIFF 48/16 bit. That will import just fine. ACC files are a) copy protected and b) I don’t think Avid supports ACC anyway.

[Jon Zanone]

[MPE] “Convert them in iTunes to AIFF 48/16 bit.”

Unless of course you have your system set to 44.1 – in which case you’ll want to convert it to 44.1 (CD standard).

Jon

[Mauislate]

I-tunes only has convert to ACC as an option – so I guess I’ll burn a CD. Good idea! Thanks!

[Jon Zanone]

Which version are you using? 4.7 will burn WAV’s….

Jon

[Mauislate]

itunes is version 4.7.1

I’m going to upgrade to ilife 05

in the meantime- I burned alot of the tunes to DVD and will import from there.

[Dom Silverio]

You need to go to your Preference. It is there you dictate the format for conversion. You can select AIFF, AAC, MP3, etc.

[Keith Putnam]

Are you referring to songs you purchase and download from the iTunes music store, or just any old audio file you happen to have in your iTunes library? If it’s the latter, you have no problem: Avid will import .mp3, .wav, and .aiff. And iTunes can import audio files as (at least) .mp3, .aiff, .aac, and Apple Lossless. These settings are in Preferences, which is where you also choose pretty much every other option important to iTunes, such as bitrate and other parameters for encoding, CD burning options, etc. If you’re not fooling with your iTunes preferences you’re missing 90% of the functionality of the application.
Anyway, if you’re talking about music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store, those files are in .aac format and have a bunch of lame DRM applied to them to keep you from doing what you want to with them. The DRM can be defeated by burning the tracks to CD as CD audio (not as .aac files, of course). At that point you have regular old CD audio files that you can do with as you please.